Amy McNichol

In 2024, @jo-scho.bsky.social thought about her first love: Oasis. Tonight, she's off to see 'em.

Yesss! A favourite spot. @allconsuming.bsky.social

🙏🏻 so clever and cheeky!

Autocratic weeknotes.

Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and the Benefits of Beef Critics at Large | The New Yorker · Episode

Back in May I loved this from New York Magazine's Critics at Large. Hoping for a follow up in Thursday's ep...
open.spotify.com/episode/32RL...

Breaking Bluesky silence to ask for reading recs on Kendrick Lamar. Mostly commentary on his cultural commentary but also Super Bowl subtleties I definitely missed (US flag >> swastikas?!)

Ikr?! So frustrating 😞

Not a particularly useful button then. Help? Help.

Thank *you*! What a banger to end on.

Thanks for including this @amymcnichol.bsky.social @allconsuming.bsky.social ❤️

My first love was Oasis. If you didn't like Oasis, this essay is also about nostalgia and optimism, and hopefully you can substitute [oasis] with [your first band].

If you did like Oasis, press play on 'Whatever'.

By my husband who bench presses 80kg, has had watery eyes over his Grandad this morning, and is now smoking half a side of salmon on the terrace. Masculinity isn't toxic by default.

Every year, @madebysheppard.bsky.social says there's one essay that just gets him. This is that one: honest. Heartbreaking. Funny.

Challenging to edit when the essay is about indifference and apathy around the subject. How might we encourage people to engage?

I have passed this on 🌟☄️

🌝Today's essay is by 2024's oldest contributor. It's got a touch of the Mighty Boosh and a whiff of the wacky backy about it but it's just lovely. Gentle. In awe of the universe. Incredulous at their insignificance in the vastness of the universe ☄️🌟 and thrilled to pieces with how lucky they are 💛

image text reads: in 2024, i thought a lot about ghosting

"Ghosting needs a rebrand. The term feels too cute – a bit silly. Stick your tongue out and wink ghost emoji. But it is serious, it takes a real mental toll."

www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/ghosting

photograph shows a tote bag embroidered with a line drawing of a character thinking and the words i thought about that a lot.

I've been forgetting to flog these cute totes which are adorned with Noelle and their brain farts, but ladz they are *embroidered* not printed. What class.

www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/product/noel...

Photographs by Laura Ashman.

photograph of the inside back cover showing a line drawing of a character in the bath with thought bubbles escaping from their head

photograph of the inside back cover which has been opened out to show a line drawing of a bus with a character sitting on the bottom deck thinking, their thought bubbles escaping from their head

Illustrations, book design, lux white space, and glorious paper choice by @ralphhawkins.bsky.social

photograph shows the inside cover of the book with a line drawing of a character holding an umbrella and walking a dog.

photograph of inside the front cover and underneath the flap. image shows a line drawing, sitting on a stool with thought bubbles escaping from their head

🌟 Here is your last-post-before-Christmas warning!🌟

We have a few copies of the I Thought About That A Lot book left (like, I can count them on my fingers). If you'd like one in time for Christmas, order your copy before 2pm tomorrow (Friday 20 December).
www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop

⚠️ WARNING❗❗❗

This essay may compel you to bin your desk job, chuck your laptop in the pond, take a sabbatical and live your best creative, arty-farty, explore-all-the-galleries, do-some-journaling, free-your-mind life.

Inspired by The Artist's Way (fondly referred to as 'The Dickhead's Way').

Loved working with this contributor. She's 66 and hadn't worked with an editor before but had a lovely balance of strong narrative voice and openness to trying new stuff. I'm glad she's found some peace this year.

Fun to edit and lots of amusing quips but these days we would call this child abuse tbh.

"While the decision to be child-free was always pretty clear for both of us, its ripple effects through our social lives have been more surprising than we anticipated. Here's how things have changed for us as the dominant draw in our clique has transferred from friends to family."

So well-written 👏

In 2020, I thought a lot about the magic of community radio by Giles Turnbull was the first essay I published in the first ever essay advent calendar. Got us off to a jolly good start, I thought 😁

www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2020/the-mag...

Ecstatic you wanted to write about Taylor 😊 She's basically the definition of 2024.

Reshuffling and coaxing and light edits by @jo-scho.bsky.social 💛

Edited by Rosemary Evans.

Edited by @jo-scho.bsky.social (so sorry JoScho, I don't think I credited you at the time of publishing).

Edits by Nadia Huq. And me.

True, my bad.

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